About Noah and his arc...
If the flood is true, where is all the water now?
2007-10-10 21:33:26 · 19 answers · asked by Mik 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
after reading some answers I came to the conclusion that at best there were some errors due to the ignorance at the time, and those errors are the source of the myth.
I apply the same to the rest of the book.
2007-10-10 22:22:55 · update #1
According to the Bible, a great wind blew the waters away.
Convincing isn't it?
2007-10-10 21:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The great flood may be true. Many different cultures all around the world have a myth about a great flood, not just judeo-christian tradition. As to where the water is? Well that depends on what caused it. One theory is that a large meteor landed in the Indian (I think) Ocean and literally sprayed water up into the atmosphere - creating not only huge tsunamis locally, but also lots of rain (from the saturated atmosphere) globally. So much rain, that the land wasn't able to soak it up fast enough creating floods. Eventually the water was able to soak into the ground or flow away and found its way back into the ocean, the same way flood-waters recede today.
edit: so, I'm wondering did the thumbs down come from believers p*ssed off because I suggested something other than Jehovah caused the flood or from non-believers p*ssed that I suggested that something in the bible could be true? Most myths have some basis in reality. For centuries people thought that Troy was just a myth, that it didn't really exist. Until it was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1870.
2007-10-10 21:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by Gemma S 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If a flood was big enough to cover the whole world, wouldn't you think that it might change the shape of the landscape? Your assumption is that the world has never been a different shape than it is now. If you leveled out all the mountains and oceans there would be MORE than enough water to cover the entire earth. Is it possible that before such a flood the mountains were not as high and the seas were not as deep? That would mean the water that covered the face of the earth is still here.
2007-10-10 21:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by jubka1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The other question we should ask is why we have fresh water and salt water fish. Surely a flood (according to current flood theories) should mix the water and thus the water would have a certain degree of salininity. Thus fish that survive only in fresh water should be dead. But fresh water fish exist today. One explanation is evolution. Maybe salt water fish EVOLVED into fresh water fish!!!!
What happened to all plant life that could not survive so long under water? How come that came back? The dove brought back an olive branch. Olive trees would have died having been under water for so long!!!
2007-10-10 21:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by penster_x 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Genesis account of created mentioned a canopy of water over the earth which obviously isn't there now. The water is still here. The land wrinkled and the sea basins formed and that's where the waters went. Is the flood true.
Interestingly there are any number of scientific papers which endorse the view that an earth wide cataclysm did occur about this time and the pressure of the water from such a flood has been cited as a possible cause of many of earth features we see today.
2007-10-10 21:38:22 · answer #5 · answered by Gaspode the wonder dog 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The STORY of the flood can be traced back to a farmer who saved his flock by loading 2 of each onto the barge he used to transport cattle on the Nile river in Egypt when the river flooded, Like most stories in the bible it was changed /exaggerated to teach lessons about obeying gods laws, Most of the bible stories can be traced back 100s/100s of years . A lot of them started as Greek myth
2007-10-10 23:20:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe the bible, personally, but...
1) Ark. Unless we're saying Noah was floating around on half a life preserver, or something...
2) Hypothetically, if it were true, probably in the ocean, lakes, seas, what have you. It would be like any other flood, but on a larger scale. Floods have occurred, right? Well, why aren't the flooded areas permanently underwater?
I'm quite opposed to religion, but I don't think this argument does much to invalidate it.
2007-10-10 21:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Think about it this way, 4000 years ago people thought the earth was flat, they also had no concept of what "Universal" Ment. To them, their immediate area would have been "worldwide" so therefore they created this story based on an actual localized event, the story then passed on from culture to culture by word of mouth and changed as we see it today.
2007-10-10 21:38:40 · answer #8 · answered by Pathofreason.com 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Noah's story is a story of incest and animal weird stuff.
I have no idea where the water went, but we could sure use it here in Oz.
2007-10-10 21:38:15 · answer #9 · answered by jacs 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
religeon tells you crap story .it is very good question
but as far as research some thing happend htousands years ago and many scientist believe that there was a star that came too close to earth but did not impact the earth and passed but when it came to close to earth the gravity of that star like moon caused a huge tide and lift the oceans water and some cities went under the water one of them is atlantis .
today many researcher did fine evidence about atlantis for more info write atlantis on google
many believe that america today is that advanced atlantis that went under the water and they call it atlantis reborn
2007-10-10 21:48:55 · answer #10 · answered by shash g 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋